San Francisco Pictures - Then and Now

An amusing little way to spend some time... Scenes of San Francisco from Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo shot in 1958. Compare them to the same location in 2003. Take the photo tour.

Future Tech Update

Ok, I'm too lazy to actually write a bunch of stuff for my blog. Well, too busy actually. Here's a quick run down on interesting technology development that may become main-stream life changers in the future:

1. Real time tracking of your friends and family
2. Media Center PCs links with your XBox 360 gaming consoles
3. Watch TV over the Internet. Move over HDTV here comes IPTV!
4. Seaching your pictures and maybe the Internet's pictures for people using face recognition. (i.e. google search for all published pictures of me)
5. Windows Live will change the way we use computers when traveling from location to location. For example, portable favorites.

OK. No more time. Lots of geek stuff on the horizon! Should be interesting to watch and experience.

Sci Fi? No. It Really Happened.

According to government documents released this week, a cylinder containing the highly radioactive and deadly Cobalt-60 got stuck in a delivery tube for three weeks at the U.S. defense department's White Sands Missle Range. The cylinder was spewing enough radiation to kill a man in 30 seconds, too much even for protective suits. Even the bomb disposal robot they sent in was repeatedly overcome by the radiation. After three days of robot repair, circuits fried by radiation and other bits melted, the robot saved the day. Read all about it in an article in Nature magazine.

Not All Technology Is Used For Good

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn